"Behind me, now!" Larishazza suddenly told us as something erupted in the distance. A large blast of magic soon followed as Larishazza erected a barrier. One made of something you did not think would stop a blast like this. Yet, it did not strike me as all that much.
Liadanann was terrified of the sight, but I was a little numb to it. I guess I was a little too prideful about the explosion I made before my capture. Something that only became more clear to me when I saw the destruction. Everything had been hit by a blast of magical origins, but, a lot remained.
"What was that?" I would ask whilst I kick about a cooling piece of slag. Sending it off into the distance while my cell neighbour trembled.
"Someone used a spell?" Larishazza tried to answer until something far worse came on by. Something that concerned Larishazza enough to bring her barrier back. And, from within the safety of this water, we could see the world around us melt and boil. A distant, thunderous roar would reach us as well as something shot into the sky.
"The wyvern..." I would say as I watched it hover in the air before it shot down to us. With the mountains near us warping like jelly as it landed.
"You there, osibindah..." the wyvern began to say before it caught onto something. Apparently, I stank of something it was familiar with. Something that caught its attention and changed it. From furious destroyer to desperate pleader...?
"Yes...?" I would ask it as I made my way through the bubble. A display of recklessness that only made Larishazza bring the barrier over to me.
"Mistress Salahma! Where is she!? I can smell her on you!" it would ask with a hopeful glint in its eyes.
"She's dead..." I muttered quietly, hoping it would not hear my satisfied words.
"Dead...? Yes... That would explain the smell, that is her blood I smell!" it began to say slowly before it let its aura flow off of it. The mountains would be deformed further and its strike against the barrier would send visible shockwaves into the sky. Bright and fiery shockwaves that lit up the sky and surged on evermore.
"Yeah, she's dead! And I'd make sure that murderer would die again!" I firmly tell the flaming lizard. Finally letting out some of what I felt when I saw her kill her own son... Just because she thought I might be able to give her a stronger one...
"Why you!" the wyvern said with a growl before it began to tear at the barrier to no avail. Larishazza's magic was both too powerful and too perfect a counter to its fire magic.
"Take the barrier down, Larishazza, we deal with him now."
"No!" was all she would say.
"DAMMIT LARISHAZZA! LET ME DEAL WITH HIM BEFORE HE ENDANGERS MY HOME!" I would yell at her in fury before the wyvern suddenly stopped.
"Your home?" it would say with an evil grin before it disappeared into the sky. And when that happened, I panicked. I panicked like I had never done before and I ran out after it.
"Nin!" Larishazza would call out as I slipped and slid over the molten rock. Ignoring it all as much as I could while trying to get up the almost grease-like mountain. And, like grease, it made it so hard to get a grip and I just kept falling down until it cooled. At which point, I would charge up the mountain and shatter it in an effort to catch the beast.
But even with my magic and the explosions it caused, I could not get high enough and this monster went higher. Yet, it would at first head in the wrong direction, it would head to another city instead. This, at first, made me slow down in my chase, but it also made me realise something else. If I did not make it believe that these cities were my home, then Tobaballe might actually burn!
"NO!" I roared out dishonestly yet still sincerely as I charged carelessly across the grass. Tearing up the forests I was so familiar with growing up and following the shadow left by its wings. The bluish-white of my magic contrasted greatly with his pale flames. I would see embers rain down from above as I ran.
I would put out the fires these impossibly hot bits of glowing air caused. Only to destroy the land around me myself as I tried so desperately to catch up with it. But I could not fly like this monster, I could only run and jump while also flinging my arms about. Begging my body to generate some kind of projectile spell before it did too much damage.
I might be able to put on an act right now, but I do not know if I will be able to maintain it. The city we were approaching meant nothing to me and I knew little of it. I could not sympathise with its inhabitants watching the oncoming danger nor would I work to save them. I wanted only to stop this monster before it found my home.
That is all that mattered right now. Not making sure Liadanann was okay and had recovered slightly. Not giving Larishazza an answer to all of her questions in order to comfort her. Nor was it going back to make sure Vadei's end goals were met.
All I wanted to do was save my home from destruction. My precious, precious home that I have gone through too much to get back to. Only to watch it be destroyed in the blink of an eye... I would not see that happen, I wouldn't!